Traction-engine.



PATENTEI) MAY 1, 1906.

C. U. HEGGEM.

TRACTION ENGINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JUL; 1. 1905.

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No. 819,226. PATENTEI) MAY 1, 1906.

0. 0. HBGGEM.

TRACTION ENGINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. 1905.

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@hwenfoz Charles 1). feggem/ DviHw-on o PATENIED MAY 1, I906.

G. 0. HEGGEM.

TRACTION ENGINE.

nruomxon FILED JULY 1,1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 4f hwentoz UNITED STATES,

CHARLES O. HEGGEM, OF MASSILLON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

AND COMPANY, OF Mrxbp'ILLON;

PATENT OFFICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. HEGGEM, a 1 citizen of the United States, residing at Massillon, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in T raction-Engines, of which the following is a specification, reference being hail therein to the accompanying (Trawings.

This invention relates to traction-engines, an-ii has for its object to provi'e a self-propelling engine of the type usually use' for the "purpose of hauling an/ actuating farm ina- I In the accompanying rawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, ,of a traction-engine embo: ymg my invention in V a front elevation of the rope guiding and ten: 5-

.remains stationary in one location it may be use": to haul as. for instance. in drawing l l chinerysuch, for instance, as threslung-mato hoist or (rag l plows through the grounvarious articles along the ground, or to ('0 other work which may be accomplishe'l by means of a win ing-hum an rope or cable ant whereby when the engine becomes stalled by.re2fson of ba l roa's or high grades it will be enabled. to pull itself along unt'er con itions where the or inary propelling mechanism woul be inefficient. To these en s my invention consists in' certain novel features, which I will now procee l to describe an'i will then particularly point out in the claims.

one form. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken in a plane passing through the counter-shaft ant; mum-shaft. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the bracketcasting which supports the drum-shaft and its cooperating ni-echanism. Fig. 4 is a detail view illustrating the connections between the drum controlling clutch rod and the hanC-lever whereby it is operated. Fig. 5 is a t'etail view of the spacing sleeve or collar detached. Fig. 6 is a view of a portion of Fig' 2, showing a t liferent position of the shiftingpinions and their spacing-sleeve; and Fig. 7 is sionin devices detached.

In t e said drawings I have illustrated my invention as applied to a well-known type of traction engine? of which 1 indicates the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 1.1905. Serial No. 267.910-

l steering-wheels 3 and having an engine 4 boiler, mounted on driving -wheels 2 and Patented May 1, 1906.

y means of which motion is imparted to an engine-shaft 5, which is connected by changespee gearing 6anfl. an interme 'iate gear 7 to a compensating gear 8 on a counter-shalt 9, provi *ed with pinions IO an-il 11, which mesh with the internal gears 12 of the drivingwheels 2. These parts may be of any approved construction. In the present instance the compensating gearingcomprises the (ouble pinion 10, which is mounted THE RUSSELL loosely on the counter-shaft 9 ani has a spur portion 13 to mesh with the driving-wheel gear 12 an a bevel-gear portion 14, which meshes with the bevel-pinions 15, carric l by the main compensating gear 8. This latter gear is mounte loosely on the sleeve-like hub of a sleeve-pinion 16, keyed or otherwise secure on the counter-shaft 9 ant having a bevel-gear portion 17, which also meshes with the bevel-pinions 15. The double pinion 10 is always in mesh with its gear 12. The counter-shaft 9 is sup ortel in suitable bearings 18 on the engine-frame, and the pinion 11 is spline' upon that end of sai shaft farthest from the en' bearing the double pinion 10, so that the pinion 11 may be sli longitu inally on the said counter-shaft, so as to be either in mesh with the internal gear 12 of the corresponding Criving wheel 2 or to be IllOVGI'l out of engagement with sail internal gear. On this same en i of the counter-shaft 9 there is mounted a pinion 19. also splinefi on sai1. shaft so as to be movable longitu' inally thereon. This pinion may be made in one piece with the pinion 11, if tiesirel.

20 indicates a spacing sleeve or collar formed in two separable parts hinged together, as shown in Fig. 5, or otherwise made removable from the shaft. This sleeve may be placed between the bearing 18 and the pinion 19, as'shown in Fig. 2, in which position of the parts the pinion 11 is in mesh with the internal gear of its driving-wheel 2, while the pinion 19 is out of mesh with its cooperating gear hereinafter referred to. The spacing sleeve or collar 20. may be removed from the counter-shaft, the pi nions 19 and 11 being slid inwardly along the same until the pinion 19 is in contact with the bearing 18, and the sleeve or collar 20 may be then replaced upon the shaft between the pinion 11 and the cap 21 on the outer end of the countor-shaft, as shown in Fig. 6. In this p0sition of theparts the pinion 1.1 is out of mesh with its driving-wheel'gear, while the pinion 19is in mesh with its coperatin gear 22. Any suitable means for shifting these gears back and forward may be employed.

The gear 22, which coperates with the pinion 19, is secured on a drum-shaft 23, which is mountedin bearings 24 in a bracketcasing 25 ,(shown in detail in Fig. 3) and secured to the under side of the boiler 1 in front of thefire-box, its upper surface being hollowed out or concaved, as indicated at 26, to fit the boiler. The drum-shaft 23 has loosely mounted thereon side by side two windingdrums 27 and 28, which are held against accidental rotation by means of a friction-brake, one for each drum. Each friction-brake comprises a friction-block 29-, preferably of wood, mounted in a recess 30, provided for it in the lower end of the bracket-casting 25,

said block being backed by springs 31, which force it out againstthe end face of the corresponding drum and being controlled by set: screws 32. The drum-shaft 23' is hollow, having -an axial bore or aperture 33,'and its central part is transversely slotted, as indicated at 34. l

indicates a clutch-rod sliding longitudinally in the bore 33 and provided atits inner end with a transverse pin 36, which extends out through the slot 34 and engages a clutchsleeve 37, adapted to slide longitudinally on and rotate in unison with the drum-shaft.

This clutch sleeve'is provided on its opposite faces with pins 38, which when the clutchsleeve is central, as shown in Fig. 2, do not engage with either of the drums. The inner endof each drum is recessed to accommodate the clutch-sleeve,.'as indicated at 39, and each drum is provided at the inner end of said recess with apertures 40, 'adapted'to receive the clutch-pins 38'. Thus by shifting the clutchsleeve 37 in one direction-or the other from its central pos'tion through the medium' 'of the rod 35 said. clutch-sleeve may becaused to engage with either one of the drums 27 or 28, so as to impart movement to the same, while. both drums will remain stationary I when the clutch-sleeve is in its central position.

The clutch-rod 35 is controlled from a ver- .cal shaft 41, mounted in bearings 42, supported by arms 43, extending laterally out ward from the bracket-casting 25. The shaft 41 is provided at its lower end with an arm. 44, terminating in a yoke which engages a grooved collar 45 on the projecting end of the rod 35 so that said rod may. rotate in unison along with the drum-shaft, while maintaining its engagement with the arm 44. The shaft 41 is provided at its upper end with an arm 46, which is connected by a'liuk or connecting-rod 47 with a hand-lever 48, pivoted at 49 to a bracket 50, supported on the boiler or fire-box. ThiS bracket has the usual lockvide inguadrant 51, and the lever 48 will be pro with the usual locking mechanism to engage therewith.

Each of the drums 27 and 28 has Wound: thereon a rope or cable 52, and these ropes or cables are carried forward from saiddrums under the boiler and under the front axle 53. Here each rope passes over a grooved guidingpulley 54, mountediloosely on a nonrotating shaft 55, supported on rods 56, extend ing downward from a plate 57, secured to the front axle-yoke. The shaft 55 is apertured for the passage of the rods 56, which latter are provided with retaining-nuts 58 on their lower ends below the shaft 55, which is free to slide on said rods. Each grooved pulley 54 isnot'only free to rotate on the shaft 55,

but is also free to slide longitudinally thereon to adjust itself to the various positions which the rope 52 may assume, the movement of each guide-pulley 54 lengthwise of the shaft 53 being limited by collars 59, adjustably secured on the shaft 55 by set-screws. In order to hold eachrope 52 in position in its] grooved pulley 54, I employ guard-rollers 60, one for each ulley and adapted to fit between the gui e-fianges thereof. The guard rollers 60 are loosely mounted on a non-rotating shaft 61, which is mounted to slide on the rods 56 and is'normally forced toward the shaft 55 b springs 62, mounted on said rods between the shaft. 61 and plate 57. By reason of this construction the guard-rollers 60 r are always held in engagement with the guidetensioning devices to insure a proper tension upon the ropes when they are being wound upon'the drums, and they may be employed to distribute the coils of rope evenly upon the drums.

Fror n the foregoing description it will be seen that when the parts are in'the position shown in Fig. 2 the engine may be used as an ordinary traction-engine, the power being applied to cause rotation of the driving- Wheels 2 to move the engine over the ground in the usual way. Of course it will be understood that the engine-shaft may be disconnected entirely from the gearing by means ,of

- which it drives the counter-shaftg by means of the friction-clutcl1driving pulley 63, from which any farm or other machinery may 1.." driven by a belt in the usual manner. When, however, it is desired to use the engine as a hauling-engine, the pinions are shifted in the manner described, so that pinion l9 meshes driven from the engine-shaft, of a windingwill be used simultaneously, passing around reason of the grade being too steep or' the load too heavy or by the bad condition or inmyself to the precise details-of construction l'iereinbefore described, and shown in the ac these detai s may be modified without de- Mil. gear 22 and pinion 11 is out of mesh uh gear 12. Thereupon the drum-shaft 23 x ill be rotated from the counter-shaft 9, which in turn will be driven from the sleevepinion 16 throrwhthe compensating gear 8 and pinions 15, t e double pinion 10 remaining stationary from its engagement with its dtiving-wheel and the counter-shaft 9 rotating in said pinion .10 as a hearing. The drum-shaft 23 being thus driven, either of its drumsmay be driven} from it by shifting the clutch-sleeve 37 by means of the hand-lever 4S and intervening connecting 'mechanism, so as to engage either of said drums. l t will be understood, 'tcourse, that the engine proper, 4, is, as usual, a reversible engine, so that the drums may be driven in either direction. \Vhen used .as a hauling-engine l'or plowing purposes, both of the ropes or cables a suitably-anchored guiding-pulley at the farther end of the furrow, one rope unwinding freely while the other is bein wound upon its drum by the engines and t e direcF tion of travel of the ropes and drums being re-, versed upon the return of the plows in the opposite direction. It will be seen that the drums'w may be utilized for dragging or hauling an object to which their ropes may be attached: either drum being used at will or both drums being disconnected when necessary. By means of suitable adj unctive devices thedrums may be used for hoisting, raising, and lowering and any other work for which a. winding-drum may be employed. In'case the engine becomes stalled on the road by equalities of the road the drum-cables may be led forward and attached to a suitable anchorage and the winding-drums may be employed to haul the engine and its load alon in an obvious manner.

" fl 0 not wish to be understood as limiting companyin drawings, as it is obvious that parting from the principle of my invention.

- Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- '1. The combination, with a tractionengin; comprising 'a boiler,- an engine roper aving an engine-shaft, drivin -whee s, and a counter-shaft located below the boiler and drum also located below the boiler, and means whereby said couhter-shaft may be caused at will to drive either the'driving wheels or the winding-drum, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a traction-engine comprisinga b0iler,'an engine proper raving an engine-shaft, driving-wheels, and

a counter-shaft located below the bdiler and driven from the engineshal't, of a drum-shaft arranged parallel with the counter-shaft below the boiler, a winding-drum mounted on said drum-shaft, and means whereby said counter-shaft may be caused at will to drive either the driving-whecls or the windingdrum, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a traction-engine comprising a boiler, an engine proper having an en inc-shaft, driving-wheels, and a counter-shat driven from the engine-shin t, of a drum-shaft arranged parallel with the counter-shaft below the boiler, a windingdrum loosely mounted on said drum-shaft, means whereby said counter-shaft may be caused at will to drive eitherthe drivingwlleels or the"windin -drum, and means for connecting said winding-drum and drun shaft to cause the two to rotate in unison, substantially as described.

4. In a traction-engine, the combination, with an engine having an engine-shaft, driving-wheels provided with gears, and a counter-shaft o eratively connected with the engineshaft y a compensating gear and provided with fast and loose pinions respectively-= meshing with the driving-wheel gears, the

fast pinion being movable into and out of, mesh with its drivingewheel gear, of a winddng-drum, aidriving-gear for said windingdrum, and a pinion rotating with the coun t er-shaft and anovable thereon into and out of mesh with fsaid driving-gear, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with, a traction-engine comprising an engine roper-and drivmg-wheels, of a drum-sh 13,- two windin drums loosely mounted on said drum-shaft and rovidod with friction-brakes, a clutch member rotating with said drum-shaft and normally out of engagement with both drums, means for moving said clutch memher into engagement with either drum exclusively, and means whereby the engine may be caus'ed'to drive either the drivingwheels or said drum-shaft, substantially as described. 5

6. The combination, with a traction-engine comprising a/boiler, an engine proper mounted thereon and having an engine shaft, driving-wheels, and a counter-shaft located below the boiler and having a driving connection. with the driving-wheels which ma be rendered inoperative at will, of a drum-s iaft located below the boiler and having two winding-drums loosely mounted thereon, means for efl'ecting at will a driving connection between said counter-shaft and drum-shaft, andmeans for connecting either winding-drum..with the drum-shaft to impart rotary motion to said drum, substantially as described.

*7. The combination, with a traction-engine comprising a boiler, an engine proper said drums with said drum-shaft to impart parallel with said countershaft, means for efliecting at will a driving connection betweenv said counter-shaft and drumshaft, two winding-drums loosely mounted on said drumshaft, and means for'connecting either of rotary motion to the drum thus connected, substantially as described.

8. In a traction-engine, the combination, with a counter-shaft from which the drivin .wheels are driven, of a hollow drum-sha t mounted parallel with said counter-shaft below the boiler, means for effecting a driving connection between said counter-shaft and drunnshaft, winding-drums loosely mounted on said drum-shaft and having clutch members on their adjacent faces, a clutch member slidably mounted on said drum-shaft between said drums and rotating in unison with said shaft, an operating-rod mounted in the hollow drum-shaft, connected to the central clutch member at oneend and extendin beyond the drum-shaft at the other end, an operating means connected to said other end whereby the operator can move said central clutch member into engagement with either drum, substantially as described.

9. he traction-engine,- the combination,

with a counter-shaft from which the driving- Wheels are, driven, of a hollow drum-shaft I mounted parallel with said counter-shaft below the boiler, means for effecting a drivin connection between said counter-shaft an drum-shaft, winding-drums loosely mounted on said drum-shaft and having clutch members on their adjacent faces, a clutch member slidabl mounted on said drum-shaft between sai drums and rotating in unison with said shaft, an operating-rod mounted in the hollow drum-shaft, connected to the central clutch member at cne end and extending beyond the drum-shaft at the other end, and operating means connected to said other end whereby the operator can move said central clutch member into engagement with either drum, said operating means com rising a hand-lever provided with looking evices, a connecting-rod, and an upright rock-shaft having one arm connected with the clutch operating rod andlthe other arm connectederases with said connectingqod, substantially as described.

10. The combination, with a traotion-en-' 'ne having a winding drum located below its oiler with its axis transverse thereto, of

guiding devices for the rope or cable supported by the front axle of so id traction-engine, substantially as described.

11. The combination, with a tractionen-- 1 prising a support having parallel rods, a non rotating shaft mounted on said rods, grooved guide-rollers loosely mounted on said shaft and free to rotate and slide longitudinally thereon, a second non-rotating shaft mounted to slide on said rods toward and from the guideroll er shait, and having loosely mount ecl thereon guard-rollers ada ted to fitwith in the grooves of the guide-ro ers, and springs for moving said guard-roller shaft toward said guide-roller shaft, substantially as described.

13. A guiding device for use in connection with a traction-engine winding-drum, com prising a support having parallel rods, a non rotating shalt mounted on said rods, grooved guide-rollers loosely mounted on said shaft and free to rotate and slide longitudinally thereon, a second non rotatin shaft mounted to slide on said rods towar and from the guide-roller shaft, and having loosely mounted thereon guardrollers adapted to fit with in the grooves of theguide-rollers, and springs for moving said guard-roller shaft toward said guide-roller shaft, said guide-roller shaft being provided with stops to limit the lateral movement of the guide-rollers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. HEGGEM.

Witnesses:

HARRY G. Yosr, FRANK GUDnKooN'rz. 

